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Esperanto Quotes

My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'

My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'

J. R. R. Tolkien
Advice, Esperanto, Would Be
"A Philologist on Esperanto". The British Esperantist, May 1932.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

George Soros
Found Someone, Esperanto, Language
"How Do You Say ‘Billionaire’ in Esperanto?" by Alison Leigh Cowan, cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com. December 16, 2010.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

Richard Bach
Book, Esperanto, Needs

It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.

J. R. R. Tolkien
War, Discovery, Esperanto
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

Nick Hornby
People, Esperanto, Common

I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes, my psychology is this way.

Pope Francis
Dream, Psychology, Esperanto
Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

Joe Hill
Esperanto, Language, Sin

I did a movie in Esperanto.

William Shatner
Movie, Esperanto, Actors
"It's 'Shatner's World' And He Wants You To See It". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

Arika Okrent
Dog, Yoga, Esperanto
Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.114, Spiegel & Grau

When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

Allen Lacy
Latin, Names, Esperanto

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